Deism, Anthropomorphism, and Religion
I'm just beginning to think about a reference article on deism that I'm writing for the Ian Ramsey Centre's Special Divine Action Project and it has me thinking about a rather curious phenomenon in early modern philosophy and religion: the complex interplay between deism and theological anthropomorphism. Presently, the term 'deism' is associated with the 'absent watchmaker' picture of God: a highly anthropomorphic conception of a divine engineer whose prime concern is the elegant mechanical design of the universe rather than moral qualities. This is a conception shaped by 18th century Anglophone deists. However, in his large and extremely carefully...
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Topic(s):
Anthony Collins
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Baruch Spinoza
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Contemporary Thinkers
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Deism
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Deism and Freethinking
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Divine Attributes
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Divine Revelation
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George Berkeley
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Historical Thinkers
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Historiography of Philosophy
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Jonathan Israel
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Philosophical Theology
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Philosophy
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Philosophy of Religion
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The Church
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Theology
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William King
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"Counteressential Conditionals" in Thought
My paper "Counteressential Conditionals" has just been accepted (conditional on further revisions) by Thought. This is a revised and expanded version of a paper that I will be presenting at the Central APA in Chicago on March 3. The journal's self-archiving policy does not permit me to post the final version, so you'll have to wait on that, but the short version that will be presented at the APA is available here. This is a more or less straight metaphysics paper (my first!), but it fits in with my work in philosophy of religion/philosophical theology. These kind of conditionals play...
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